Agronomy ICAR JRF Test - 11 — Agri Master Mind
Primary Agricultural Credit Societies launched in the year
- 2023
- 2012
- 2017
- 2019
Vibrant Villages Programme (VVP) launched in which year
- 2023
- 2022
- 2021
- 2020
Approximately, what fraction of total workforce of India is engaged in agricultural and allied sector activities
- 55 %
- 45%
- 35%
- 65%
Approximately, what fraction of India's Gross Value Added (GVA) for the year 2019-20 is contributed by Agriculture and Allied Activities
- 18 %
- 29 %
- 20%
- 17%
Approximately, what fraction of total workforce of India is engaged in agricultural and allied sector activities
- 55 %
- 45%
- 35%
- 65%
What is the rank of India in fruit production
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
What is approximately share of India in the global agri-trade
- 2.5%
- 3.5%
- 4.5%
- 5.5%
Who is Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare and Tribal Affairs
- Arjun munda
- Amit sah
- Kirodi lal meena
- Bhajan lal sharma
7th Session of Codex Committee on Spices and Culinary Herbs (CCSCH) held in
- Kochi
- Karnataka
- Orrisa
- Dehli
Punganur is a dwarf breed of
- Buffalo
- Cow
- Goat
- Sheep
Clonal selection is mostly used in --- crop
- Turmeric
- Maize
- Ginger
- Wheat
What is the parental phenotypic ratio in F2 generation in Dihybrid cross
- 9:1:3:3
- 9:1:3:1
- 9:3:3:1
- 9:1:1:3
Tissue system responsible for conduction of water is ----
- Cambium
- Phloem
- Xylem
- None of these
Genetic code has been reported by ----
- Fisher
- Watson
- Nirenberg
- Crick
Land Improvement Loan Act was passed in ---
- 1985
- 1990
- 1983
- 1992
Honey bee is ---- type of insect
- Non Beneficialinsect
- beneficial
Toxic crystal of protein of Bt. Is only effective when pH of mid gut is ---
- Acidic
- Neutral
- Alkaline
- None of these
Concept of model village is given by ---
- Adivi Reddy
- O. P. Dahama
- Daniel Hamilton
- Seaman A Knapp
Loose smut of barley is ----
- Soil borne
- Externally seed borne
- Internally seed borne
- None of these
Maximum density of water exists at ---- C
- 0
- 45
- 4
- 99
The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber is called :
- Lumbering
- Logging
- Loding
- Looping
The study of the life history and general characteristics of trees and forests is termed as :
- Silviculture
- Silvics
- Shelterbelts
- Singling
The proportion of area under various crops at a point of time in a unit area is described as :
- Cropping pattern
- Cropping system
- Crop rotation
- Crop diversfication
At present, the main objective of intercropping is :
- Insurance against crop failure
- Higher productivity per unit area
- Stability in production
- Efficient utilization of resources
The intensive cropping is possible with the introduction of :
- Short duration, photo-sensitive varieties
- Short duration, photo-insensitive varieties
- Long duration, photo- insensitive varieties
- Long duration, photo-sensitive varieties
The most efficient crop for N and P utilization is :
- Jute
- Summer rice
- Potato
- Maize
The most efficient crop for K utilization is :
- Groundnut
- Maize
- Jute
- Potato
Which one of the following is the most intensive grazing system :
- Continuous grazing
- Rotational grazing
- Rational grazing
- None of these
The separation of grain or seed from chaff is known as :
- Threshing
- Harvesting
- Drying
- Winnowing
The growing of which crop reduces the population of Pratylenchus eel worms :
- Tomato
- Caster
- Marigold
- Gingelly
The farmers practice monocropping and monoculture due to :
- Climatic conditions
- Socio-economic conditions
- Specialization of a farmer
- All of the above
The mixed cropping is a common practice in most of ----- tracts of India :
- Irrigated
- Dryalnd
- Water-logged
- None of these
Who is considered as the father of tillage :
- Jethro tull
- G B Triplett
- J V Liebig
- P C Raheja
Which one of the following is a multi-purpose plough :
- MB Plough
- Disc plough
- Country plough
- All of these
The SI unit of heat/energy is :
- Watt/m2
- Joule
- Kilo caloric
- Poise
According to CRIDA, ploughing of ----- cm depth is deep ploughing :
- 5-6
- 15-20
- 25-30
- 30-35
The tillage operations carried out through out the year are known as :
- Year-round tillage
- Minimum tillage
- Zero-tillage
- Conservation tillage
The after cultivation practice includes :
- Drilling of fertilizers
- Earthing up
- Blind hoeing
- All of these
Which of the following is not a secondry tillage implement :
- Cultivator
- Harrow
- Plough
- Planker
When the primary tillage is completely avoided and secondary tillage is restricted to seedbed preparation in the row zone only then it is defined as :
- Zero tillage
- Minimum tillage
- Reduced tillage
- Conventional tillage
A single tillage operation over a hectare with a country plough requires--- km walk on rough land :
- 10
- 20
- 30
- 40
The optimum depth of sowing for most of the field crops ranges from---cm :
- 3-5
- 1-2
- 5-7
- 7-9
As a thumb rule, what would be the optimum age of seedlings for every month of total duration of the crop :
- 1 week
- 2 week
- 3 week
- 4 week
The shape of space available for individual plants is referred to as :
- Plant geometry
- Crop geometry
- Plant rectangularity
- None of these
The agronomic practice of gap filling is advantageous in :
- Short duration and closely spaced crops
- Short duration and widely spaced crops
- Long duration and widely spaced crops
- All of these
When the seedlings are transplanted, they establish by producing :
- Crown roots
- Nodal roots
- Prop roots
- Seminal roots
The fruit growth in cotton is also called as :
- Grain growth
- Pod growth
- Boll growth
- None of these
The state having largest acreages and production of potato in the country is :
- Uttar Pradesh
- West Bengal
- Bihar
- Punjab
A kind of soilerosion in which usually U-shaped or V- shaped large intermittent water course with steep sides are formed :
- Splash erosion
- Sheet erosion
- Rill erosion
- Gully erosion
The huskless variety of barley is :
- Manjula
- K K 141
- Dolma
- R S 6
The crown roots in wheat appear :
- Above soil surface
- Below soil surface but above seed
- Below soil surface and below seed
- Below seed
Who is popularly known as sugarcane wizard :
- C A Barber
- C A Black
- B Vishwanath
- S Venkataraman
The proportion of area under different crops at a point of time indicates :
- Crop rotation
- Cropping intensity
- Croping pattern
- Crop control
The number of rainy days indicate :
- Duration of rainfall
- Intensity of rainfall
- Distribution of rainfall
- All of these
The most widely used evaporimeter (standard evaporimeter) for measuring evaporation is :
- USWB class A open pan evaporimeter
- Sunken screen evaporimeter
- Can evaporimeter
- Portable evaporimeter
The relation between bar and Kpa is :
- Bar x 100 Kpa
- Kpa x 100 = Bar
- Kpa x 10 = Bar
- Bar x 1000 = Kpa
In India, the first sunflower hybrid BSH-1 was evolved at :
- Bengaluru
- Mumbai
- Lucknow
- Varanasi
The first Indian dwarf variety of rice relased in India is :
- IR-8
- TN-1
- Jaya
- Ratna
Which is a mutant variety of pea :
- Hans
- Aparna
- Swastik
- Alankar
The maximum yield of bunch type groundnut is obtained at a plant geometry of :
- 30 x 10 cm
- 45 x 15 cm
- 60 x 15 cm
- 60 x 30 cm
Which oilseed crop is regarded as Queen of oilseeds :
- Groundnut
- Sesame
- Mustard
- Sunflower
Which one of the following is a variety of sunflower :
- Morden
- Surya
- MSFH-1
- All of these
The optimum seed rate (Kg ha-1) of sunflower :
- 8-10
- 10-15
- 18-20
- 20-25
Which one of the following is not a pigeonpea hybrid :
- ICPH-8
- PPH-4
- COH-1
- CO-3
The number of standard meteorological weeks in India are :
- 49
- 52
- 53
- 55
The First interspecfic hybrid of cotton was evolved form :
- Gujarat
- Karnataka
- Tamil Nadu
- Maharashtra
The optimum plant population per hectare of sorghum is ---- plants :
- 50,000
- 1,00,000
- 1,50,000
- 2,00,000
Nitrogen is applied in transplanted rice in the proportion of :
- 50% at basal+Nil at tillering+50% at panicle emergence atage
- Nil at basal+50%at tillering+50% at panicle emergence stage
- 25% at basal+50% at tillering+25%at panicle emergence stage
- 50% at basal+25% at tillering+25% at panicle emergence stage
Awarodhi variety of gram is resistant to :
- Wilt
- Blight
- Flooding
- Drought
In which crop, the use of BGA as a bio-fertilizer will be most useful :
- Maize
- potato
- Rice
- Sugarcane
Which vegetable oil is good for heart patients :
- Groundnut oil
- Mustard oil
- Soybean oil
- Sunflower oil
Irrigation in gram are recommended at :
- Early flowering and maturity stages
- Late flowering and pod formation stage
- Early flowering and pod formation stage
- Before flowering and pod formation
UPAS-120 is a variety of :
- Wheat
- Arhar
- Barley
- Urd
Interculture in groundnut is avoided at :
- Flowering stage
- Seedling stage
- Pegging stage
- None of these
The ginning percentage in cotton can be worked out by the formula :
Refractometer is used for determining maturity of :
- Maize
- Wheat
- Pearlmillet
- Sugarcane
Application of gypsum is required more for :
- Paddy
- berseem
- Lucerne
- Groundnut
The rotational intensity of maize-wheat+gram-moong is :
- 200%
- 250%
- 300%
- 400%
An example of parallel cropping is :
- Sugarcane+potato
- Potato+Mustard
- Potato+Radish
- Wheat+Mustard
Intercropping of mustard with potato is recommended in :
- Replacement series
- Additive series
- Replacement and additive series
- None of the above
Aruna is a mutant variety of :
- Pea
- Cotton
- Castor
- Soybean
The downward movement of surface soil water is known as :
- Infiltration
- Percolation
- Leaching
- Wash out
The herbicides containing carbon and hydrogen in their molecules are called :
- Arsenic herbicides
- Acid herbicides
- Organic herbicides
- Salt herbicides
Alley cropping means :
- Growing of pastures in between two widely spaced rows of fast groing trees
- Growing of field crops in between two widely spaced rows of fast growing trees
- Growing of only short duration crops in between two widely spaced rows of fast growing trees
- Growing of only fodder crops in between two widely spaced rows of fast growing trees
A count is the number of hanks of ---- metre----- yards each which weighs one pound :
- 770.6, 840
- 840, 770.6
- 670.6, 480
- 480, 670.6
Tensiometers are also called :
- Irrometers
- Water meters
- Current meters
- None of these
The relationship between dry matter of crop and ET in cereals is :
- Linear
- Quadratic
- No relationship
- None of these
Which is the most important factor that decides the rate of ET :
- Soil conditions
- Climatic conditions
- Crop characteristics
- None of these
Crop coefficient (Kc) is the ratio between :
- ETc/ETo
- ETo/ETc
- ETa/E
- None of these
The Drum culture technique is used for measuring components of WR of :
- Wheat
- Paddy
- Sugarcane
- Jute
The irrigation requirement (IR) of a can be expressed as :
- WR+ER+S
- WR-(ER+S)
- IR+ER+S
- None of these
When rainfall is of low intensity and light and ground vegetation is full, the effective rainfall is close to :
- 0%
- 50%
- 75%
- 100%
Calculate the amount of water for each irrigation for scheduling irrigation at 0.8 IW/CPE ratio with 10 cm of CPE :
- 5 cm
- 8 cm
- 2 cm
- 11 cm
The most critical stage of irrigation in rice is :
- Flowering
- Booting
- Panicle intiation
- All of the above
Which is the most common methed among the surface methods of irrigation :
- Flooding
- Cheek basin
- Basin method
- Furrow method
The intermittent application of water to the field surface under gravity flow resulting in a series of on and off modes of constant or variable time spans is defined as :
- Cablegation
- Surge irrigation
- Sprinkler irrigation
- Trickle irrigation
Which one of the following countries has the largest area under drip irrigation :
- USA
- Israel
- Australia
- India
The typhoon system of irrigation is useful for :
- Sugarcane
- Paddy
- Citrus
- Wheat
The field water use efficiency is defined as :
- Y/ET
- Y/WR
- Y/Cu
- Y/IR
Which one of the following has the highest WUE :
- Rice
- Maize
- Wheat
- Finger millet
The susceptible crops for water logging include :
- Tobacco
- Tomato
- Pulses
- All of the above
The injury to plants due to water-logging is severe under---- conditions :
- Warm and sunny weather
- Cool and cloudy weather
- Warm and cloudy weather
- Cool and sunny weather
Water- logging causes injury to the plants due to :
- Low O2 content
- Toxic substance accumulation
- Both a and c
- None of these
Which one of the following is used as an indicator plant to irrigation in sugarcane :
- Mango
- Potato
- Banana
- Sunflower
Which physiological disorder of cotton is characterized by premature defective opening of the bolls :
- Red leaf
- Tirak
- Both of these
- None of these
Which one of the following is a multi-cut variety of fodder sorghum :
- M P Chari
- Meethi Sudan
- P C 23
- All of these
Statement I – Organic manure contains a low amount of nutrients and are applied in large quantities. Statement II – Nutrient fractions in organic manures are in organic nature only
- Both Statement I and Statement II are true
- Both Statement I and Statement II are false
- Statement I is true and Statement II is false
- Statement I is false and Statement II is true
Statement I - Conservation agriculture involves no tillage or drastically reduced tillage, but biological tillage is allowed Statement II – During the initial years of conservation agriculture, there is a heavy infestation of weeds but it decreases with passing years.
- Both Statement I and Statement II are true
- Both Statement I and Statement II are false
- Statement I is true and Statement II is false
- Statement I is false and Statement II is true
Statement I – A remote sensing system that possesses only a sensor and depends on external sources to irradiate the target to be called an active remote sensing system. Statement II – INSAT series of satellite are polar orbiting satellites.
- Both Statement I and Statement II are true
- Both Statement I and Statement II are false
- Statement I is true and Statement II is false
- Statement I is false and Statement II is true
The mode of action of Atrazine is
- Pigment inhibition
- Cell membrane disruption
- Seedling growth inhibition
- Photosynthesis inhibition
Herbicides prone to photodecomposition such as Trifluralin, monuron, chloramben and PCP should be applied in
- Morning
- Evening
- Afternoon
- All
Montmorillonite clays adsorb more herbicide as compared to other clays due to
- Expanding lattices
- more surface area
- More negatively charged sites
- All
Paraquat herbicide belong to which group
- Bipyridylium
- Benzoic
- Carboxalic
- Uraciles
The authority associated with the first genetically modified plants the soybean resistant to glyphosate from Monsanto which achieved widespread success was
- Rachel Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964)
- Fritz Haber (9 December 1868 – 29 January 1934)
- Robert Fraley (birthdate: 1953)
- Norman Borlaug (March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009)
The first genetically modified plants, the soybean resistant to glyphosate was developed during
- 1983
- 2003
- 1993
- 1973
Delinting of cotton helps in :
- Grading of seed
- Killing of hibernating boll worm larvae and disease pathogens
- Quicker germination
- All of the above
What is the chemical formula of dolomite?
- Al2O3.3H2O
- Fe2O3
- CaCO3.MgCO3
- CaSO42H2O
Solubility of gases in water can be explained by using
- Arnon’s law
- Arnold’s law
- Darcy’s law
- Henry’s law
The capacity of a soil to recover its functional capacity after a disturbance is called
- Soil reaction
- Soil resilience
- Soil adsorption
- Soil salinity
Choose the correct order of humic substances according to the molecular mass
- Humic acid <humin<fulvic acid
- Humin>humic acid>Fulvic acid
- Humic acid<fulvic acid <humin
- Humic acid >fulvic acid >humin